We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.

Isolation is the worst possible counselor.

There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.

The devil is an angel too.

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions - perhaps so that we could believe in them.

Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.